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Sony just announced that 4K compliant compact Handycam FDR-AX100, unveiled at CES 2014 in Las Vegas, will be released in Japan on March 14. It's a quarter of the size of their currently-sold 4K Handycam FDR-AX1, and the price is about ¥200,000 cheaper as well.

Fujifilm is going to release portable printer instax SHARE SP-1 on February 15. The portable printer allows you to wirelessly send a photo taken by a smartphone and instantly print it out on film for the instant camera Cheki series.

To use the portable printer, install the dedicated free application, compatible with both Android smartphone and iPhone, to your smartphone. The application provides a lot of templates and editing options to decorate your photos.

Marukome, Japanese miso paste manufacturer, has developed the One-shot Kiwami miso soup server for household use and they will start selling it on January 27.

You can be ready to have a bowl of miso soup simply after adding water and a dedicated liquid miso paste canister into the machine and a bowl with your favorite ingredients below. It looks like a compact espresso machine for miso soup and fits nicely in kitchens.

Grand Sumo Tournament 2014 January is currently taking place at Ryougoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo. It started on January 12 and will end on January 26. Ustream will broadcast all of the Sumo matches in this tournament to the whole world.

Mouse Computer just released new 4GB and 8GB (RAM) desktop PC models that include the latest AMD "Kaveri" A10-7850K APU today, with pricing checking it at just under 60,000 Japanese yen (about US $600).

It is also compatible with AMD's Mantle API, which is an implementation for GPU commonly used for 3D graphics games, giving improved performance.

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